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Direction / PM
Game Director
Lead a new console title from concept and specifications to world-building and milestone management.
- Open
- Job code: AP-MG-01
Role
You will direct a new console game project.
Responsibilities
- Lead the development team
- Create and direct the game concept
- Draft specifications and review and adjust specification documents
- Define the world and write scenarios
- Manage milestone progress
- Negotiate with the producer and clients
Required experience
- Console game direction experience
- Direction experience on projects of 10 or more people
- Negotiation and persuasion skills to move projects forward with internal and external stakeholders
- Experience presenting your own proposals
Preferred experience
- Ability to motivate a team
- Action game development experience
- RPG development experience
Tools and languages
- Unreal Engine 4
- Excel
Before you apply
Please describe the commercial titles you have worked on and your specific responsibilities.
Terms of employment
- Unreal Engine 4
- Excel
- Project
- Bloodstained: The Scarlet Engagement
- Employment
- Full-time or contract (contract hires are made with conversion to full-time in mind). 3-month probation.
- Location
- Kanda Center Building 5F, 2-3-2 Kajicho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo (about 3 min from JR Kanda Station)
- Hours
- 10:00–19:00 (8 working hours, flextime available)
- Holidays
- Saturdays, Sundays, national holidays, year-end and New Year, paid annual leave, summer leave, celebration and condolence leave
- Benefits
- Commuting allowance, full social insurance, annual health check, celebration and condolence allowances, free drinks, skill-development support, gym subsidy, company trips
- Salary
- Determined by experience and ability under company rules, regardless of age, and reviewed after joining. Monthly salary includes 40 hours of fixed overtime.
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